Quotes About Frustration

But I don't like working. I do the absolute minimum that is necessary to reach a decision. There are many people who love working. They amass an inordinate amount of information, much more than is necessary to reach a conclusion. And they become attached to certain investments because they know them intimately. I am different. I concentrate on the essentials. When I have to, I work furiously because I am furious that I have to work. When I don't have to, I don't work.

It took ten months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

So I did what any deeply burdened American would do: I took to my blog and bitched about it.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!" "No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I thought we were going to have chops,' complained Larry aggrievedly. 'I spent all morning getting my taste buds on tiptoe with the thought of chops. What happened to them?' 'I'm afraid it's the owls, dear,' said Mother apologetically. 'They have such huge appetites.' Larry paused, a spoonful of curry halfway to his mouth.

Spiro, we have a problem,' he confessed. It was like saying 'walkies' to a bull mastiff.

My creatures, each in its own way, abused me, reviled me, slandered me and condemned me out of hand for being five minutes late with their food.

Typical of the medical profession,' said Larry bitterly. 'They can't even spot a disease until the patient is twice life size.

Punk' is nothing but death and crime...and the rage of a beast.

Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up.

Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

You can't get blood out of a turnip.

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.